This is about bronies. They communicate by stomping.
She's got cigarette on each arm
She's got the lily-white cavity crazes
She's got a carburetor tied to the moon
Pink eyes looking to the food of the ages
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's got a hand on a wheel of pain
She can talk to the mangling strangers
She can sleep in a fiery bog
Throwing troubles to the dying embers
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's got a paradise camouflage
Like a whip-crack sending me shivers
She's a boat through a strip-mine ocean
Riding low on the drunken rivers
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's got the lily-white cavity crazes
She's got a carburetor tied to the moon
Pink eyes looking to the food of the ages
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's got a hand on a wheel of pain
She can talk to the mangling strangers
She can sleep in a fiery bog
Throwing troubles to the dying embers
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
She's got a paradise camouflage
Like a whip-crack sending me shivers
She's a boat through a strip-mine ocean
Riding low on the drunken rivers
She's alone in the new pollution
She's alone in the new pollution
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"She's got cigarette on each arm..."
"She's got the lily-white cavity crazes..."
-She smokes cigarettes, but yet worries about her teeth being white. He is poking fun at trends in vanity.
"She's got a carburetor tied to the moon..."
Pink eyes looking to the food of the ages
"She's got a hand on a wheel of pain..."
"She can talk to the mangling strangers..."
"She can sleep in a fiery bog..."
(she can sleep with someone else)
"Throwing troubles to the dying embers..."
and when she does, he's going to know about it and its going to bother him. The 'dying embers' are his relationship with the girl he is singing to.
"She's got a paradise camouflage Like a whip-crack sending me shivers She's a boat through a strip-mine ocean Riding low on the drunken rivers"
She's trying to get hers over on him by pretending to live "well", but in his opinion, she's robbed herself of the best parts of life, hence the "strip-mine ocean"
I really hate when people say that Beck's songs are meaningless because if you break them down line by line they are the complete opposite. This is actually a very dense song. If only the people on this website weren't the same way...
I feel like the character here is the flip side of Nightmare Hippy Girl. While the Hippy is a "new age let down," living in the past, this girl is making the most out of the present, terrible situation.
Alright Greggy, props for that meaning.
I think it's about a girl lost in our society that's new to her. (our society is polluted).
One of my favourite Beck songs. I love the funky keyboards and then the great sax later on, and Beck's lyrics are just always entertaining.
i always felt this song was about a lady who could use sex as a weapon to get her way. " shes got a hand on the wheel of pain , she can talk to the mangled strangers," kinda like she can make you jealous by flirtin with new guys and what not
I heard somewhere that Beck said it was about how the media and internet and all these new electronic things have polluted our society, and the girl in the song is able to remain pure. "She can sleep in a fiery bog Throwing troubles to the dying embers" it's a love song.
I agree with treefingers505... and I like the keyboards here. Good song.
The chorus is Beatles like. The keys are Doors like, the sax reminds me of Bowie.
Damn.
In this particular piece, Beck is referring to a common frustration of middle-aged, balding caucasian males. The "new pollution" (also known as 'poluição nova' in his native language of Portuguese) represents an extreme fear of the unknown. The 'unknown' in this case, however, is perfectly obvious to an objective observer; it is his discovery of 'a camoflauged paradise' -- or a chronic inability to achieve a solid, firm erection. The unfortunate discovery hits Beck like an a bolt of lightning. It is a sobering, caustic "whip-crack sending [him] shivers." So much, in fact, that it causes an identity crisis seen by Beck's refering to himself in third person, as a female, throughout the song. And as I'm sure many of you have inferred, when Beck says "cigarette" he clearly means "penis."
It means nothing Greggy, but you have an interesting imagination. Music lyrics don't need meaning to make an amazing song as Beck demonstrates in almost all of his hits.